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The department primarily serves the communities of Cypress and Fairbanks which are collectively known as Cypress-Fairbanks or Cy-Fair since. Cy-Fair Fire Department serves over 500,000 people over a 155-square-mile (400 km 2 ) area and responds to more than 27,000 incidents each year.
Kobelco Construction Machinery America, LLC. is a manufacturer of excavators based in Houston, Texas, United States, with a manufacturing plant in Moore, South Carolina and is a subsidiary of Kobe Steel. A former global sales alliance between Kobe Steel and CNH Global ended in December 2012. [1]
LeTourneau had spent the early 1950s perfecting a diesel-electric drivetrain for multi-wheeled heavy-machinery. [ citation needed ] The system—somewhat similar in concept to the sort used on many locomotives –used a diesel combustion engine to spin an electric generator, which would send its power to hub motors mounted to each wheel of the ...
The department is the largest fire department (by number of personnel) in the state of Texas. [4] The administrative offices of HFD are located on the 17th floor of 500 Jefferson Street (a part of the Cullen Center) in Downtown Houston. [5] They were previously located at the City of Houston Fire Department Logistical Center & Maintenance Depot ...
Komatsu Limited and Dresser Industries established Komatsu Dresser to make mining tractors, construction equipment and related equipment. [15] This 50-50 ownership lasted from September 1988 to August 1994, when Komatsu bought out Dresser's share. [15] By 1993, it generated sales of more than US$4 billion, and employed 31,800 people in fifty ...
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas with numbering plan area 281/346/713/832 highlighted. Area codes 713, 281, 832, 346 and 621 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) forming an overlay complex for Houston, Texas and its environs. 713 is one of the original four area codes established for Texas in 1947.
BFI was founded in Houston, Texas.The company was initially known as American Refuse Systems, and it opened its first landfill in 1968. The company soon became the first waste hauler on the New York Stock Exchange, after purchasing the Browning-Ferris Machinery Company, and changing their name to Browning-Ferris Industries.
Based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded as Universal Packing and Gasket in 1940 and was renamed to UTEX Industries in 1969. Grey Mountain Partners purchased UTEX in 2005 and sold it in 2007 to Audax Group, which sold it to Rhône Group in 2010. Private equity firm Riverstone Holdings purchased UTEX Industries for $825 million in 2013.